If you’ve spent time in the frontend world, you’ve likely encountered the great debate:
React vs. Vue. Both are powerful JavaScript frameworks for building dynamic user interfaces. Both have huge communities and proven production use cases. But when it came time to build Laioutr, our Frontend Management Platform for composable commerce, we had to choose carefully.

Our architecture is built on Nuxt.js for performance, but we chose Vue for component authoring and UI flexibility. Here’s why.

 

React vs. Vue: A Quick Breakdown

Both frameworks are fast, modern, and battle-tested. But when you're building a platform for scalable, reusable components used by both developers and non-developers, the details matter.

Why We Chose Vue for Laioutr

1. Separation of Concerns Just Feels Right

Vue uses single-file components (SFCs), where HTML, JS, and CSS live together, but cleanly separated. That makes components:

• Easier to read

• Easier to debug

• Easier to onboard new devs

With React (JSX), everything is JavaScript. That’s powerful—but also intimidating for new or junior devs. Laioutr is used by teams of all skill levels. Vue makes the entry barrier lower, without sacrificing power.

2. Vue Is More Approachable for Agencies & E-Commerce Devs

Our users aren’t building dashboards for Silicon Valley SaaS startups. They’re building storefronts, fast.

Most agencies and e-commerce teams come from:

• HTML/CSS-heavy backgrounds

• Shopify themes (Liquid), Twig, or classic templating

• Less JavaScript-heavy environments

Vue feels familiar and approachable. JSX does not.

3. Better for Declarative, Visual UI Building

Laioutr isn’t just a dev framework, it’s a visual frontend management platform.

We needed a component format that plays well with:

• Layout previews

• Drag-and-drop UIs

• Live editing

• Design tokens

Vue’s syntax and props system work beautifully in visual environments. React’s abstraction and meta-layers (hooks, contexts, etc.) are harder to introspect.

4. Smaller Component Payloads

Vue’s component boilerplate is more compact out of the box, perfect for high-performance, edge-deployed storefronts.

Less boilerplate = smaller builds = faster pages = more revenue.

Why We Still Use Nuxt.js in the Core

Our architecture uses Nuxt.js (Vue's meta-framework) in places where performance and deployment matter most:

• Static generation

• Edge delivery via Vercel

• Image optimisation

• Routing and code splitting

We call it the best of both worlds: Vue for expression, Next for execution.

Why Vue on Next.js for Laioutr?

Built for the Frontend Teams of Today (and Tomorrow)

Commerce teams are moving fast. They need tools that are:

• Powerful

• Performant

• Friendly to both devs and marketers

That’s why Laioutr is built with Vue components and deployed with Next.js under the hood. You don’t need to pick sides. You just need to move faster, with fewer trade-offs.

Try Laioutr today and build with Vue power + Next.js performance